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मेरे भाई (charchil singh chandel) के खिलाफ एक झूठी एफआईआर 260/23 , धारा -376, 506 थाना - हापुड़ नगर , उत्तरप्रदेश में हुई थी, जिसमें मेरा नाम और मेरे भाई के दोस्त का नाम भी लिखाया गया था। उस दौरान पुलिस ने इन्वेस्टिगेशन की। इन्वेस्टिगेशन के दौरान पुलिस ने मेरा नाम तथा मेरे भाई के दोस्त का नाम चार्जशीट से निकाल दिया गया तथा फाइनल चार्जशीट मेरे भाई के खिलाफ कोर्ट में दाखिल की। मेरी गवर्नमेंट जॉब लगी है और जिसमें मुझे अटेस्टेशन फॉर्म दिया गया है। अटेस्टेशन फॉर्म में कुछ जानकारी मांगी है। आप मुझे बताएं कि मुझे उसमें क्या भरना है?
a) Have you ever been arrested? Yes/No
(b) Have you ever been prosecuted? Yes/No
(c) Have you ever been kept under detention? Yes/No
(d) Have you ever been bound down? Yes/No
(e) Have you ever been fined by a Court of Law? Yes/No
(f) Have you ever been convicted by a Court of law for any offence? Yes/No
(g) Gave you ever been debarred from any Examination or restricted by any University or any other educational authority / institution? Yes/No 
(h) Have you ever been debarred / disqualified by any Public Service Commission / Staff Selection Commission for any of its examination / selection? Yes/No 
(i) Is any case pending against you in any Court of Law at the time of filling up this Attestation Form? Yes/No 
(j) Is any case pending against you in any University or any other educational authority/institution at the time... Yes/No
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You may submit your answer as NO.

Vivek Bhai Patel
Advocate, New Delhi
34 Answers

नीचे दिए गए प्रश्नों के उत्तर इस प्रकार दें:

(a) Have you ever been arrested? → No (क्योंकि पुलिस ने आपको गिरफ्तार नहीं किया था)

(b) Have you ever been prosecuted? → No (चूंकि आपके खिलाफ चार्जशीट दाखिल नहीं हुई, आपका अभियोजन (prosecution) शुरू नहीं हुआ)

(c) Have you ever been kept under detention? → No

(d) Have you ever been bound down? → No

(e) Have you ever been fined by a Court of Law? → No

(f) Have you ever been convicted by a Court of law for any offence? → No

(g) ...debarred from any Examination...? → No

(h) ...disqualified by any Public Service Commission...? → No

(i) Is any case pending against you in any Court of Law...? → No (क्योंकि चार्जशीट में आपका नाम नहीं है, अदालत में आपके खिलाफ कोई मामला लंबित नहीं है)

(j) ...case pending against you in any University...? → No

Lalit Saxena
Advocate, Sonbhadra
513 Answers

आपको सभी जगह blindly “No” नहीं भरना चाहिए। सबसे पहले यह देखना जरूरी है कि FIR में आपका नाम होने के बाद investigation में आपके खिलाफ क्या final action लिया गया था।

अगर आपको arrest नहीं किया गया, आपके खिलाफ charge-sheet दाखिल नहीं हुई, आपको court में accused के रूप में prosecute नहीं किया गया, कोई conviction/fine/detention/bound down नहीं हुआ, तो सामान्यतः (a) से (h) तक के answers “No” होंगे, बशर्ते इनके संबंध में आपके खिलाफ कोई अलग proceeding न हो।

सबसे important question (i) है — “Is any case pending against you in any Court of Law?” अगर police investigation के बाद आपका नाम charge-sheet से निकाल दिया गया और आपके खिलाफ court में कोई case pending नहीं है, तो केवल FIR में आपका नाम होने से यह जरूरी नहीं हो जाता कि आप आज भी court में pending criminal case वाले व्यक्ति हैं। लेकिन final charge-sheet और उस पर court का order देखना जरूरी है।

Police verification के समय FIR की बात छिपानी नहीं चाहिए। आपके पास FIR, final charge-sheet/police report और court का relevant order होना चाहिए। अगर verification officer पूछता है कि आपका नाम FIR में था, तो सीधी factual बात बताइए कि नाम FIR में था, police ने investigation की और investigation के बाद आपको charge-sheet नहीं किया गया तथा final case आपके भाई के खिलाफ भेजा गया।

एक और जरूरी बात — Attestation Form में जो सवाल पूछा गया है, उसका जवाब उसी wording के अनुसार देना चाहिए। FIR में नाम आ जाना और किसी व्यक्ति के खिलाफ criminal case का court में pending होना, दोनों अलग बातें हैं। इसलिए केवल डर की वजह से हर जगह “Yes” भरना भी सही नहीं होगा और बिना documents देखे हर जगह “No” भरना भी उचित नहीं है।

अगर आपके पास final charge-sheet और court का order है, तो उसी के आधार पर answers तय करना सबसे सुरक्षित रहेगा।

Indu Verma
Advocate, Chandigarh
346 Answers
10 Consultations

Answers for Your Attestation Form


    • (a) Have you ever been arrested?

      • No (Assuming the police never formally arrested you or locked you up in a police station/jail).


    • (b) Have you ever been prosecuted?

      • No ("Prosecuted" means facing a trial in a court of law. Since your name was dropped from the charge sheet, no judicial proceedings ever started against you).


    • (c) Have you ever been kept under detention?

      • No (You were never placed under administrative or legal detention).


    • (d) Have you ever been bound down?

      • No (A magistrate or court never ordered you to sign a bond for good behaviour or keeping peace).


    • (e) Have you ever been fined by a Court of Law?

      • No (No court has ever penalised or fined you).


    • (f) Have you ever been convicted by a Court of law for any offence?

      • No (You have never been found guilty by any court).


    • (g) Have you ever been debarred from any Examination...

      • No (No board, university, or educational institution has ever restricted you).


    • (h) Have you ever been debarred / disqualified by any Public Service Commission...

      • No (You have never been disqualified by UPSC, SSC, or any state commission).


    • (i) Is any case pending against you in any Court of Law at the time of filling up this Attestation Form?

      • No (Currently, no case is pending against you, as the charge sheet in court was only filed against your brother).

 


  • (j) Is any case pending against you in any University...

    • No (No disciplinary cases are pending in any educational institution).

 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
101019 Answers
8252 Consultations

Check "No" for all the items. Then, if there is a "Warning", "Remarks", or "Any other relevant information" column at the bottom of the page, write the following clear note in English:

"An FIR No. 260/23 (PS Hapur Nagar, UP) was falsely registered, in which my name was initially mentioned. However, after a thorough police investigation, I was found completely innocent, and my name was officially dropped/exonerated from the final charge sheet filed in court. No criminal case or trial is pending against me in any court of law."

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
101019 Answers
8252 Consultations

अटेस्टेशन फॉर्म (Attestation Form) में जानकारी पूरी ईमानदारी और स्पष्टता के साथ भरना बहुत महत्वपूर्ण होता है, क्योंकि किसी भी प्रकार की जानकारी छिपाने (suppression of material facts) से बाद में सेवा से निष्कासन तक की कार्रवाई हो सकती है।

आपके मामले में, पुलिस जांच के दौरान ही आपका नाम आरोप पत्र (Charge Sheet / Final Report) से निकाल दिया गया है और आपके खिलाफ अदालत में कोई भी आरोप तय या केस प्रेषित नहीं किया गया है।

Answer all questions NO.

दस्तावेज़ सुरक्षित रखें:

पुलिस द्वारा अदालत में दाखिल चार्जशीट (Charge Sheet / Final Report under Section 173 CrPC) की प्रति, जिसमें आपका नाम निकाला गया है, अपने पास सुरक्षित रखें। यदि पुलिस सत्यापन के समय स्थानीय पुलिस थाना इस FIR का जिक्र करता है, तो आप यह प्रति दिखाकर स्पष्ट कर सकते हैं कि आप इस मामले में आरोपी नहीं हैं।

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
91226 Answers
2527 Consultations

हाँ, तकनीकी और कानूनी रूप से आपके लिए सभी प्रश्नों (a से j) का उत्तर 'NO' ही रहेगा, क्योंकि:

आप कभी गिरफ्तार नहीं हुए।

आपके खिलाफ कोर्ट में चार्जशीट दाखिल नहीं हुई, इसलिए आपके ऊपर मुकदमा (Prosecution) नहीं चला।

फॉर्म भरते समय कोर्ट में आपके खिलाफ कोई केस पेंडिंग (Pending) नहीं है।

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
91226 Answers
2527 Consultations

a) If you was not arrested in that case after lodging FIR , then mention No. However if was arrested then give YES 
with the remark no charge sheeted due to being innocence.

b) NO

c) NO
d) NO
e) NO
f) NO
g) NO
h) NO
i) NO
j) NO

- Since, there is no pending case against you including that case under section 376 , then police will give a positive
report

Mohammed Shahzad
Advocate, Delhi
16069 Answers
245 Consultations

AAP ko kuch false information nahi deni. 

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
35352 Answers
257 Consultations

Based on the facts stated by you, the most important point is that FIR No. 260/2023 was registered against your brother, whereas your own name was subsequently deleted during investigation and you were not charge-sheeted. Therefore, you should not automatically answer “Yes” merely because your name appeared in the original FIR.

However, because the attestation form specifically asks about arrest, prosecution, detention, etc., the exact answer depends upon what actually happened to you personally—not what happened to your brother.

For your particular form, the position would ordinarily be:

Column

What you should answer, based on the facts presently stated

(a) Have you ever been arrested?

No, if you were never arrested in FIR 260/2023 or any other case.

(b) Have you ever been prosecuted?

No, if no prosecution was initiated against you and you were not charge-sheeted/put on trial.

(c) Have you ever been kept under detention?

No, if you were never detained.

(d) Have you ever been bound down?

No, unless a court/police authority actually passed a binding-down order against you.

(e) Have you ever been fined by a Court of Law?

No, assuming no court has ever imposed a fine upon you.

(f) Have you ever been convicted by a Court of Law?

No, assuming you have never been convicted.

(g) Debarred by educational authority?

No, unless this has happened.

(h) Debarred/disqualified by PSC/SSC?

No, unless this has happened.

(i) Is any case pending against you in any Court?

No, if you are not an accused/person against whom a case is pending. The fact that your brother's case is pending does not make it a case pending against you.

(j) Case pending before educational authority?

No, assuming none is pending against you.

The Supreme Court has specifically emphasized in Avtar Singh v. Union of India that an attestation form must be answered according to what the particular question actually asks, and that an employer cannot treat information as suppressed when the form did not require that information. At the same time, where the form specifically asks about arrest or prosecution, the candidate must answer truthfully. Indian Kanoon

There is an important distinction here between being named in an FIR and being arrested/prosecuted. If your name appeared in the FIR but the police investigated and removed your name from the final charge-sheet, that does not by itself mean that you were “prosecuted.” Similarly, if you were never arrested, you cannot answer “Yes” to the arrest question merely because you were named in the FIR.

However, I would recommend checking the final police report/charge-sheet and the court order taking cognizance, if any, before signing the attestation form. If the final police report specifically records that your name was deleted/not sent up for trial, retain that document. It can be extremely useful if the department subsequently conducts character verification.

One important caution: do not write “No” to every column simply because you were ultimately removed from the case without first verifying whether you were ever arrested, detained, bound down or otherwise proceeded against individually. The Supreme Court has made clear that where a form specifically asks for such information, inaccurate disclosure can itself create employment complications. Indian Kanoon

If the form has an additional column asking whether you have ever been “involved in any criminal case,” “named in an FIR,” or whether any FIR was registered against you, that is different from the questions reproduced above. In that situation, the original FIR naming you may need to be disclosed with an explanatory statement that you were subsequently exonerated/deleted from the charge-sheet and no prosecution is pending against you.

Also, if this is a police, CAPF, armed forces, judicial, or other sensitive government post, the department's specific verification rules may impose additional requirements beyond the general attestation form. The precise recruitment notification and the complete attestation form should therefore be checked before submission.

On the facts presently supplied, if you were only named in the FIR, were never arrested/detained/bound down, were never prosecuted or convicted, and your name was deleted from the final charge-sheet, the answers to (a)–(j) would ordinarily be “No,” subject to verifying the actual police/court record and the exact wording of the complete form.

Yuganshu Sharma
Advocate, Delhi
1644 Answers
5 Consultations

Aapko sabhi column me No dena hoga agar koi aur case aapke khilaf nhi hai kyuki iss form me sirf court me pending cases ya decided cases ke baare me punchha gya hai na ki kisi FIR me aapka naam hai ya nhi ke baare me.

sabhi me No likho agar kuchh bhi yes wala option aapke sath nhi hua hai to.

Nadeem Qureshi
Advocate, New Delhi
6395 Answers
302 Consultations

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